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The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm

The American Girl

By Monika Fagerholm
528 pages; Other Press

A teenager from the United States drowns, her body sucked into the murky water of a marsh in rural Finland. Her distraught lover, a local boy, hangs himself. The couple's constant sidekick goes mute with grief. A tragic but simple story, yes? Of course not. Nothing is obvious in The American Girl, a deliciously complex novel by award-winning Scandinavian writer Monika Fagerholm...Read more

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From the April 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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